What is another word for fathomless?

Pronunciation: [fˈaðəmləs] (IPA)

When it comes to defining depth or extent, the word "fathomless" is just one of many synonyms that can be used. Some other options include immense, infinite, boundless, unfathomable, unbounded, bottomless, immeasurable and vast. Each of these words emphasizes the idea of something being difficult or impossible to understand or fully explore. They are often used to describe physical features such as oceans, canyons or space, but they can also be used to describe abstract concepts such as emotions or intellectual concepts. Regardless of the context, all of these words suggest a sense of incomprehensibility or magnitude beyond what can be easily grasped.

What are the hypernyms for Fathomless?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for fathomless?

Fathomless refers to something that is immeasurable or incomprehensible. The antonyms for this word would be limited, understood, measurable, definite, comprehensible, and bounded among others. The word fathomless implies that something is unknowable or impossible to measure, while its antonyms suggest that it is easy to comprehend, within human understanding and quantifiable. For instance, the opposite of a fathomless pit would be a shallow pit, while the opposite of fathomless knowledge would be pure ignorance. In short, the antonyms for fathomless describe something that has limitations, and can be easily comprehended or measured.

Usage examples for Fathomless

Not a single person was in sight, and the stir of the wind in the branches, that sound so seldom heard by Londoners, seemed to her as if wafted from fathomless oceans of sweet air in the distance.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
As he questioned her and listened to her answers his passion took a rhythm, upward and downward, from blind wrath to black sorrow; and it seemed that the points reached by the rising curves were becoming less high, while the descending curves went lower and lower, through sorrow into shame, and still down, to fathomless depths of despair.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
Roderick Deal's fathomless eyes drew Skag's and held them while he spoke: "We are leaving you to be alone with her-at the last!"
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost

Famous quotes with Fathomless

  • The inference to be drawn from all this is, that the made-up and dogmatic Christianity of the Constantinian period is simply an offspring of the numerous conflicting sects, half-castes themselves, born of Pagan parents. Each of these could claim representatives converted to the so-called orthodox body of Christians. And, as every newly-born dogma had to be carried out by the majority of votes, every sect colored the main substance with its own hue, till the moment when the emperor enforced this revealed olla-podrida, of which he evidently did not himself understand a word, upon an unwilling world as the religion of Christ. Wearied in the vain attempt to sound this fathomless bog of international speculations, unable to appreciate a religion based on the pure spirituality of an ideal conception, Christendom gave itself up to the adoration of brutal force as represented by a Church backed up by Constantine. Since then, among the thousand rites, dogmas, and ceremonies copied from Paganism, the Church can claim but one invention as thoroughly original with her — namely, the doctrine of eternal damnation, and one custom, that of the anathema.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • Sri Aurobindo, for one, insisted on the radically different spirit in Sikhism as compared with Islam: 'Those ways of Indian cult which most resemble a popular form of Theism, are still something more; for they do not exclude, but admit the many aspects of God. (...) The later religious forms which most felt the impress of the Islamic idea, like Nanak's worship of the timeless One, Akla, and the reforming creeds of today, born under the influence of the West, yet draw away from the limitations of western or Semitic monotheism. Irresistibly they turn from these infantile conceptions towards the fathomless truth of Vedanta.' (Sri Aurobindo: Foundations of Indian Culture, p.135)
    Koenraad Elst
  • Praised be the fathomless universe For life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious; And for love, sweet love—But praise! O praise and praise For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
    Walt Whitman
  • Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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